Superintending Anthropologist (Physical)
Anthropological Survey of India
Southern Regional Center, Mysore
☎️+91-7976865831
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1912-5447
Research Interest
Human evolution and the evolutionary patterns of epidemiology are some of the interesting areas of my investigation. The human cultural variation and its adaptation had a significant role defining the disease etiology. Thus my main focus is to see the bio-cultural variation present in different human population, how human population groups have adapted to different ecological setup through biological and cultural adaptation, and how demography, genetics, traditional knowledge system shaped the human population to sustain in this world.
Education
BSc in Bioscience from D.H.S.K. College, Dibrugarh, Assam in 2001.
MSc from Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University in 2004.
PhD from Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University in 2010.
Best ten research articles (single authored)
1) Mithun Sikdar. 2023. Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence tries to settle hitherto putative history of Kayastha population of India. American Journal of Human Biology, e23851.
2) Mithun Sikdar. 2021. Whether Mahatma Gandhi was misinterpreted through the dilemma of irrelevant and relevant philosophies? Oriental Anthropologist (2):290-302.
3) Mithun Sikdar.2016. Hemoglobin E in Northeast India: A review on its origin, distribution, migration and health implication. Anthropological Review 79 (3), 241-263
4) Mithun Sikdar. 2015. Socioeconomic classification of Indian population: A conceptual update for biomedical research. Biolife 3 (3), 769-770.
5) Mithun Sikdar. 2015. Dual burden of malnutrition and hidden hunger among tribal children of North East India. Current Science 108 (2), 152.
6) Mithun Sikdar. 2012. Nutritional status among the Mising tribal children of Northeast India with respect to their arm fat area and arm muscle area. Human Biology Review 1, 331-4.
7) Mithun Sikdar.2012. Socioeconomic covariates and their impact on the opportunity for natural selection in a riparian tribe of Northeast India. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 69, 273-87.
9) Mithun Sikdar. 2009. Continuity and Change in Matrilineal Marriage System: A Case Study among the Garos of Poschim Bosti, Assam. Studies in Tribes and Tribals 7 (2).125-130.
Best five book chapters (single authored)
1) Mithun Sikdar. 2019. Tribal Health: the saga of gene-culture interaction, in M.C. Behera (Edited) “Development and Tribes: Contemporary Issues and Challenges”, Serial Publications Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
2) Mithun Sikdar.2018. The new era of nutrigenomics in Tackling Dual Burden of Malnutrition, In Nitish Mondal , Kaushik Bose and Jaydip Sen (Edited) “Malnutrition: A double burden,” B.R. Publication, New Delhi.
3) Mithun Sikdar. 2015. Environmental quality, developmental plasticity, epigenetics and physical growth in a riverine population of Northeast India, in Mithun Sikdar (Edited) “Human Growth: the mirror of the Society”, pp 275-293; B R publication corporation, New Delhi, INDIA. (ISBN 9789350502006).
4) Mithun Sikdar. 2014. Sleep duration and central obesity among the adults: A case study in Udaipur, Rajasthan. In Kaushik Bose and Raja Chakraborty (Edited), “Health Consequences of Human Central Obesity”, , pp 207-214; NOVA Publishers, USA.(ISBN: 978-1-63321-152-0).
5) Mithun Sikdar.2013. Nutrition transition in Developing countries. In M. Harmanussen, (Edited), “Auxology: studying human growth and development”, pp 124-125.Schweizerbart Science Publisher, GERMANY. (ISBN 978-3-510-65278-5).
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Anthropological Survey of India,
Southern Regional Center
Bogadi, Mysore-570026
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